Meet the 11 candidates up for nomination to U.S. Biathlon's X or development-group teams, from high-school upperclassmen to post grads.
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Paquet, the personal coach for Jean Philippe Le Guellec and whose contract was not renewed by Biathlon Canada, will move to oversee the American development and "X" teams as well as regional development efforts. "The new job is exactly what I was looking for," Paquet told FasterSkier.
USBA CEO on NoCo: ‘The Good Thing is That They Have a Track Record of Being Super Successful’
BrainspiralMay 27, 2014
U.S. Biathlon CEO Max Cobb says that it took four or five years for his organization to get on its feet after splitting from modern pentathlon in 1980 -- but that whatever route U.S. Nordic Combined takes, the good news for them is that they have proven success and that direct fundraising tools have entered a whole new realm in the past few years.
Biathlete on the Rise, Smith Earns National Team Nomination as U.S. Builds for Future
Chelsea LittleMay 16, 2014
Last year, Casey Smith transitioned away from school at Montana State University and into full-time training at the Maine Winter Sports Center. His first season as a senior biathlete reaped big rewards: an appearance at Olympic Trials, podiums at the Czech Cup, and a top-30 finish at Open European Championships. As recognition, Smith earned a "B" team nomination.
There could be such a thing as national-team walk-ons as a result of an upcoming US Biathlon tryout camp, a new format of its kind aimed at talented endurance athletes in the J1, OJ or collegiate age category.
Despite a fall, Susan Dunklee gutted out her first World Cup podium in a biathlon sprint in Oslo today, pushing hard in the finishing stretch to unseat Olga Vilukhina by one second and take third place. "I’m not afraid of being on the podium or even winning one of these days," Dunklee said after notching only the third-ever World Cup podium by a U.S. woman.
‘Fighting Spirit’ Takes Dreissigacker to Career-Best 23rd, Leads North Americans in Olympic 15 k
Chelsea LittleFebruary 14, 2014
Disappointed with her sprint result and frustrated to sit out the pursuit, Hannah Dreissigacker "made a plan" and executed to achieve the best finish of her career, by 30 places -- at the Olympics, no less. The first-time Olympian led all North Americans with a 23rd-place finish. Megan Imrie of Canada placed 30th.
Aggressive Again, Burke Talks Sochi Prep after Strong Pursuit Performance
Chelsea LittleJanuary 13, 2014
Tim Burke knew exactly what he did wrong to earn five penalties in Saturday's individual race: he took his time. "Actually for me usually the slower I shoot the worse I shoot," he said. Fixing that on Sunday, he shot 19-for-20 and was rewarded with a much-improved result.
U.S. Team to Biathlon World Youth and Junior Championships Picked: 13 Athletes on Roster
BrainspiralDecember 30, 2013
After three trials races in Presque Isle, Maine - which will also host the big event itself - the U.S. has selected a team for World Youth and Junior Championships in biathlon.
Eleven U.S. Biathletes Picked for Pre-World Cup Camp in Sweden, Key in Olympic Qualifying
Chelsea LittleOctober 28, 2013
USBA picked 11 athletes to send to Europe this fall, based on trials races this summer in Jericho and last week at Soldier Hollow. Some of them will be picked for Sochi - but who? We clarify the qualification process, as well as getting some comments from High Performance Director Bernd Eisenbichler about the performances he saw in Utah last week.
FasterSkier caught the US Biathlon team during one of their hardest workouts of the training season in Lake Placid, with the added bonus of watching German gold medalist Andrea Henkel rollerski around with them.
After two years, Corrine Malcolm is no longer on the biathlon national team. But as she said in a blog title, "that's okay." Now on the CXC roster and nannying to pay her bills while she lives in Bozeman, Malcolm feels fit and is trying to figure out if her Olympic goals are still possible without the financial means to attend both sets of biathlon trials leading into the winter season.
As U.S. Biathlon Hones Focus on Sochi, Small Group Named to 2014 National Team
Chelsea LittleApril 15, 2013
With the Olympics looming, the U.S. Biathlon Association cut its national team to the smallest it has been in years, with no new members and only one athlete under the age of 25; development was cut almost completely. President and CEO Max Cobb hopes that good performances in Sochi will be a rising tide that lifts all boats in his sport.
Coming off the high of a top-five in Sochi, Russia, last weekend, U.S. Biathlon’s Tim Burke continued the momentum on Friday in Khanty-Mansiysk with a ninth-place finish in the 10 k sprint, the third-to-last race of the World Cup season. Lowell Bailey also had a strong finish in 11th place, two seconds behind Burke with perfect shooting.
Doherty Races to Silver in Biathlon Youth Worlds Opener
Alex KochonJanuary 25, 2013
Sean Doherty achieved a personal best and made U.S. history on Friday, placing second in the 7.5 k sprint opener at the IBU Youth/Junior World Championships in Obertilliach, Austria. Just 3.6 seconds out of first, Doherty was still soaking up the result.
Cook Sets Another Personal Best with 18th in Antholz Sprint; Kuzmina Makes Her Return to Victory
Chelsea LittleJanuary 17, 2013
Careful skiing at altitude and a single penalty on the range netted Annelies Cook the best finish of her World Cup career, placing 18th in a 7.5 k biathlon sprint in Antholz, Italy today. The win went to Olympic sprint champion Anastasiya Kuzmina of Slovakia, who hasn't seen much of the podium since Vancouver.
In the men's 4 x 7.5 k relay in Ruhpolding Martin Fourcade anchored France to a 9-second victory over Norway, redeeming themselves of their last memory of the venue. Lowell Bailey and Leif Nordgren put the U.S. in second at the halfway mark, but the Americans ended up 14th.
Flatland’s World Cup Return Paves Way for Norwegian Relay Victory over Near-Flawless Russians
Chelsea LittleJanuary 9, 2013
Norway already had a winning women's relay team, but the addition of Ann-Kristin Flatland, a former World Cup winner who took last season off to have a baby, only made them more dominant. The Norwegians collected a 54-second victory over Russia, even though their rivals used only a single spare round to clean their 40 targets. The U.S. was 13th and Canada 14th.
Eager to Prove They Are Better than Early-Season 16th, U.S. Men’s Relay Notches Fifth-Place Finish in Oberhof
Chelsea LittleJanuary 5, 2013
A strong team effort, where each racer skied among the fastest times of the day withstood the pressure of the notoriously loud and crazy Oberhof fans, gave the U.S. their best relay result in the era of modern biathlon.
Ten American Biathletes Selected for World Youth and Junior Championships
Chelsea LittleJanuary 2, 2013
Sean Doherty (Vermont Collegiate Biathlon) and Anna Kubek (Mount Itasca) dominated their fields so thoroughly that it was tough for anyone else to come close enough tot qualify automatically, thanks to USBA's percent-back system. But with a little discretion, ten young biathletes are bound for Obertilliach, Austria, later this month.